For the first 11 months of 2011, Russia's meat and meat product output grew 4.4% on the year to 1.1 million tonnes, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a report Thursday (Dec 16).

Russia's poultry and poultry product output increased 8.4% on the year to 2.7 million tonnes in Januaryâ€“November, while the output of fish and fish products edged up 4.7% on the year to 3.3 million tonnes.

In 2010, Russia's meat and meat product output spiked 11.2% on the year, the service said in January.